Posted by
Laura L. Hollis, JD on Sunday, December 13, 2009 8:42:24 PM
I would like to read
D'Souza's new book. I do wonder if he addresses a point I have often thought about. Specifically, when one reads about NDEs (or "near-death experiences") where someone dies on the operating table, or at the scene of an accident, and is resuscitated, so many of them claim to see a light, a being, a feeling of incredible love, loved ones who have died earlier, etc. Many claim that they are told "it is not your time," and that they must come back.
Skeptics claim that all of this is simply the hallucinatory effect of anoxia - that is, the deprivation of oxygen to the brain. While that might explain the idea of a point of light closing in, I fail to see how that explains anything else. If you administered a hallucinogenic drug to 100 people, they would not have the exact same hallucination. So why is it, then, that so many people who have "died and come back" had virtually identical types of experiences?
I think that evidence of life after death is everywhere, and we ignore it. But if you look for it, it is astonishing how often it appears.
Here is an example from my local paper.
This is a remarkable story of a local state trooper here in central Illinois (Tolono, about 5 miles south of Champaign). The story is about an honor he received, but there is an anecdote he relates about a fatal accident at which he arrived, and what happened thereafter. Read it yourself and decide.